Entre-Temps is a digital journal of contemporary history—a collaborative, entirely free publication—affiliated with Patrick Boucheron’s chair at the Collège de France, which was launched in October 2018.
Entre-Temps is a public service in the field of history that takes the form of an open platform dedicated to a pluralistic, joyful, interdisciplinary, and cross-media approach to history. It is a space for exchange, debate, creation, and production.
Entre-Temps aims to highlight diverse content (whether exclusive or sourced from the internet). We seek to bring to light the diversity and inventiveness of new forms of historical writing by identifying, promoting, and connecting them with one another.
One of Entre-Temps’s goals is to offer a rich and diverse perspective on the ways in which history is constructed and unfolds. Our journal invites readers to take a look behind the scenes—at the “how it’s done” of research, writing, and dissemination. It focuses less on “finished products” than on the paths taken, the approaches followed, and the methods employed. This is one of its unique features, which makes it a public service for history: helping everyone discover how a topic and a subject are developed, whether they take the form of books, films, exhibitions, or works of art. The dynamics and the process are seen as just as essential as the final results. Entre-Temps is history in the making, a journey through history’s present-day actions.
In the way it showcases the works in progress and the construction of these projects, the intermedia dimension is crucial. A unique focus of Entre-Temps is, in fact, to foster and document dialogues between different fields, all of which take history as their subject. These may include researchers, teachers, archivists, writers, painters or visual artists, filmmakers, and documentary filmmakers. What matters most is their collaborative work, their exchanges, and how their perspectives complement one another—and sometimes, why not, the tensions that may arise from the differences in their approaches and areas of interest.
